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1.      The Notes and Summaries section stated: Sitting Bull, also known as Tatanka Iyotake or Tatanka Iyotanka or Ta-Tanka I-Yotan, was a Native American shaman and leader of the Hunpapa Sioux. He fought against the Crow Indians and was wounded in battle on several occasions. Sitting Bull greatly opposed the encroachment of the white men. He led Sioux and Cheyenne warriors against U.S. soldiers of the 7th Cavalry at the battle of Little Bighorn. After the battle, in which many were killed, Sitting Bull led his tribe into Canada, where they lived until surrendering to U.S. forces. After his capture he toured with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show. Sitting Bull was killed while resisting arrest for his unwillingness to abandon the traditions of the ritual Ghost Dance, which had been outlawed.

The autograph card I was searching for is located at the Cornell University Library.

2.      I decided that I wanted to search for a copy of Gray’s Anatomy. I tried multiple ways of searching, I tried searching for Henry Gray and used the formal name of the oldest editions of the book, but in the end, didn’t even come close to finding what I was looking for. The closest I got was the Historical Society of Pennsylvania collection containing several brass dies that were used in the book. I’m not sure what I was doing wrong. I did not find this resource to be intuitive or easy to use.

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1.      When I typed in Paul Revere, I found a teaspoon, tea urn, and sugar bowl made by Paul Revere.

2.      When searching Sioux, I found pictures of gloves and other items of clothing, pipes, drawings, dolls, and many other items made by the Sioux people.

3.      The first thing I actually searched for was the Capitoline Wolf or the She Wolf. I was looking for the bronze statue of her suckling Romulus and Remus. Since I could not find it in the database, I was quite bummed, but carried on anyway.

I chose Rodin as my artist. I was not at all surprised to find that there were numerous pictures of The Thinker and The Age of Bronze. However, I was surprised that I found Eve, but not Adam, nor were The Three Shades or The Kiss(my personal favorite) in the database. At least The Gates of Hell was, which I happen to think is a very cool piece. The database did include some of his paintings, etc., but I prefer his sculpture. There were some very nice pieces included in the database, but also some very big holes.

4.      This would be a helpful resource for some our undergrads that are taking an art appreciation course. We have some really cool art resources at our library already, but this is also a nice resource.

5.      The Favorites view has some great tools, I like that you can zoom in and out and the photo didn’t lose its clarity.